Air Force is developing one of the most advanced fifth-generation warfighting
capabilities in the world. Our integration, information and innovation
will drive a modern and fully integrated combat force that can deliver air and
space power effects in the information age. Our mission, "Ready the Warfighter"
reflects the centrality of the Air Warfare Centre's task of transforming
Air Force to fifth-generation warfighting.
In Air Force the Air Warfare Centre is the go-to organisation for integrated
air warfare solutions and advice. The Air Warfare Centre is the backbone that
supports Air Command in driving and achieving the Plan Jericho vision to
develop a future force that is agile and adaptive, fully immersed in an
Information Age and truly joint. So the concept of a fifth-generation
organisation means that we collaborate, we integrate, and we're agile and
adaptive, and we need to do that to be able to ensure that we can not only
support the fifth-generation platform but we can deliver fifth-generation
effects in a modern battlespace. So how we think, how we collaborate together
has to change, we can't do business as we have done traditionally, we need to look
at how we change to support those fifth- generation platforms. So warfare was
transformed substantially through the advent of the Industrial Age. We're
seeing exactly the same thing happen again as we're moving into the
Information Age, so our warfighters need to not only be experts in delivery
of air power both kinetically and non- kinetically across the air environment or
maritime and land domains. They've really got to be knowledgeable about how to
plan and execute and deliver those effects in far more complex terrain. And I'm
talking about cyber terrain and the fact that we can deliver effects from space
or through your computer. So while we can go and buy a fifth-generation platform
the platform itself doesn't provide the fifth-generation capability without
people that provide and operate and support that type of capability. And in
order for them to be able to maximise the effect of that platform they need to
think differently about the way they do their job. Our people are our power I
suppose. And so we need to work professional capability, their personal
capability, and again how they collaborate as teams to deliver
effects out to the warfighter. We can't take the same approach into the modern
way of warfighting. We are an organisation where individual and team
excellence is achieved through integrated air warfare design, solution
and maintenance for joint warfighting effects. Our leaders proactively pursue
integration opportunities and develop our personnel to be capable of
delivering enhanced integration and innovative warfare capabilities. We are
supported by a workforce that includes Air Force, Army, Navy, Public Service and
Defence industry personnel. International engagement is a key part in our Air
Force strategy. So we need to collaborate with our Coalition partners because we
understand that almost all of our operations are going to be as a
coalition. We must integrate and understand their capabilities with our
unique capabilities and to deliver the mission effect. And we need to
collaborate with industry partners because we understand and acknowledge
that we don't hold all of the answers within Air Force. We have to engage with
them to develop combined answers, do that rapidly and be able to repeat that
regularly to be able to provide again a military advantage. We will systematically
generate rapid, cogent and integrative solutions in response to current and
future capability gaps using bottom-up innovation. We will bring together
subject matter experts from across all Defence capabilities to support
integrated air warfare. We will be the centre for innovation and thinking for
integrated operations. Our integration, information and innovation will drive a
modern and fully integrated combat force that can deliver air and space power
effects in the Information Age. The Air Warfare Centre - bringing capabilities
together to ready a fifth-generation warfighter.